Tom, I do not know. I have never had any problems with the cache but then again the installers I have built aren't exactly complicated!
However, first place I would look is to run an install on a fresh machine with verbose logging and see if the files are being installed to the directory you expect. Chris -----Original Message----- From: Tom Kazimiers [mailto:2voo...@gmx.de] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 17:11 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall Problem if installed on non system partition Chris, thanks for the hint with the MSI log. I looked into it and found something odd: The INSTALLLOCATION-Directory property has another value then where the application is installed. This is strange since it is declared as the base directory in the setup sources and not modified anywhere else. Coulds this have something to do with MSI caching? Thanks, Tom Chris Lord wrote: > Tom > > For files your installer places on the hard disk, the uninstall should > remove them automatically unless they are still in use. There should > be no need for you to manually remove these files. Directories are a > different matter as the uninstall will not remove it if the directory > is not empty. This typically happens if the application generates its > own files when running. The uninstaller does not know anything about > them and thus leaves both the files and the directory intact. > > Run the uninstall from the command line using msiexec to get a verbose > log and see what the log says. It should give you a clue why the > files are not removed. > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Kazimiers [mailto:2voo...@gmx.de] > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 04:07 > To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. > Subject: [WiX-users] Uninstall Problem if installed on non system > partition > > Hi, > > the installer I use is written with WiX 3 and everything works, except > one little problem with the uninstallation process. If I don't change > the default install location (which is on the system partition of > Windows) everything works as expected (everything gets removed on an > uninstall). But if I use a different install location only some files > get removed (in fact, only some sub folders with their content). Files > that lie directly in the install location folder do not get removed. > > Has anyone experienced such a problem before? If I compare both > component declarations in the wix source, I see no fundamental > differences that could cause this. > > In other installers where sometimes <RemoveFile> and <RemoveDirectory> > tags used. > When are they needed and when not? > > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > ------ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
